Ladder.



E. V. FENTON.

LADDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-26, IBIS.

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ERNEST V. FENTON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

LADDER.

specmcation of Letters Patent. gamme@ 51111615, 1915 Application led December 26, 1913. Serial No. 808,663. 7

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST V. FENTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Des Moines, county of Polk, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ladders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a ladder adapted for house painting, and the like, which can be moved laterally, by the painter, without the necessity of his leaving his seat, or being greatly disturbed in his occupation.

My invention consists of certain details of construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I shows a side elevation view of a ladder fitted out with my improvement. Figs. II, III, IV, V and VI show detail views of their respective parts, and Fig. VII shows a modified form of a track and carriage which I occasionally employ.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

the reference numeral 10 is used to indicate the lower section of a ladder mounted on a wheel carriage 11, as shown, the drive wheel 12 having rigidly secured to its inner face a grooved wheel, or drum, V13. The wheels of the carriage are grooved, and travel on a track 14, or, as I show in the modied form illustrated in Fig. VI, the wheels may be of any construction desired and operate in a grooved track.

The ladder may be of any desired number of sections built up of mating sections held in place by any ordinary means such as shown at 15. At the upper extremity of the upper section I have placed a removable frame 16, providedon its inner end with a wheel 17, the periphery of which is designed to engage the side of the housel and travel thereon when the ladder is moved.

The numeral 18 indicatesa seat, and the numeral 19 al footboard, the two being secured to a frame 20, removably secured to the ladder at any point, by means of an Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for ve cents'each, by addressing the Uommissioner of Patente, i

arm 21, provided with a` hooked end designed to. hook over any desired rung of the ladder, and a V shaped brace rod 22, de-

signed as a support. l l

0n the forward and outer endof theseat is secured an inwardly projectingbrace23,

to which is mounted a wheel 24 designed to engage the side of the house and to` travel thereon when the ladder'is moved. v

Near the upper extremity of the upper section' ofthe ladder, and within easyreaching distance of the operatoris mounted a hand'wheel 25, provided with Va grooved drum over which a cable 26is` designed `to y pass extending downwardlyA therefrom 'to engagement with the wheel 13.

It is obvious that an operatorrmoving the hand wheel 25, at the top of the ladder, willv cause the said ladder to move in either direcv tion desired, according to the direction in which he moves the hand wheel.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what v I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States'is: l, Y 1

A house ladder of the type described, including a ladder, mounted for movement in a `direction parallel with respect to thehouseand equipped with .a seat-formingstructure or framearranged to be positioned laterally of the ladder, said ladderha'ving its upper movement of the ladder, said seat-forming der-attaching members arranged to engage rounds of the ladder, whereby said seat structure is caused to face in the "direction of the propping ofthe ladder, said seat structure also having an outstanding bearing member arranged to have a correspondingrotating movement with the rotation of the bearing of the ladder. Y

ERNEST V; FENTON.

Witnesses: i' l 1 BpLQCOHEN, ZELL G.- Ron. f

Washington, TD. C. 

